Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29
NEBRASKA
Ord has . toboggan slide


Ord is clamoring for = nornal schcsl
The Bassett Clipper has ceased to be.
There are about 400 banks In the state.
Grand Island claims q population OF Z 5000
Cheyenne county claims . population Of
over 5000.
Rushyille has narrowly escaped . kerosene
famine.
The railroads pay Cherry county III, 900 in
taxes.
Litch field needs more sshsol aceonsano-
ions.
Photography 10 taught In the schools at
Blair.
A~insworth 10 to have ( new roller mill In
the spring.
Stuart claims to be the greatest hay market
In the northwest.
The cooperative library at McCook 10 being
literally patronised.
The Grand Island board Of trade has beer
reorganized.
j. Nelson vas frozen to death at Yale last
Monday night.
Chester enjoys the reputation OF being =
booming village.
1t Is suggested that \ canning factory be es-
tablished at Inman.
English sparrows have made their appear
auce in Hay Springs.
The denizens OF Elba are suffering at the
hands of chicken thieves.
have been fined 500 each.
Sherman county is entitled to S., 1904 as
its share Of the school fund.
The Catholics in the vicinity OF Milford are
organizing a church society.
A charity masquerade ball will be given at
North Platte Friday, Jan 81.
The Beatrice Canning factory paid out $2s,.
600 for vegetables last season.
The business men of York are taking steps
to secure the establishment of a paper mill.
A man was Ened SIS and costs at Harvard,
Clay county, the ether day, for selling bottled
beer.
Rabbit hunting is engaging the attention Of
sportsmen in several portions of the state just
now.
The new Standard theater In Nebraska City
was opened with appropriate nourishes Mon
day night.
A Council Bluffs capitalist wants to put mp
and operate a foundry In Sidney for q bonus
of 81, 200.
A corps Of Rock island surveyors are oper-
ating in Webster county, = few miles from
Red Cloud.
Salem offers to sell a fne water power at a
bargain TO any one who will erect afrst.class
aouring mill.
Nine hundred tons OF coal were distributed
among the engines passing through Weeping
Water In December.
Material for the division shops OF the Elk
horn Valley road at Norfolk is being unload
ed at that point.
A drought OF news 10 raging the state press
at the present moment. The membership alb
serbs all the energy and ability of the fra
%ternity.
The Norfolk street railway company has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital Of s., 900, divided ints shares of 800
each.
George II. Slaymaker Of Atkinson was
awarded the first prize offered by a seed com
pany for the largest onion grown in the United
States.
The comptroller Of the treasury has au-
thorized the First National bank OF Beaver
City, TO begin business With a capital OF
$50, 900.
Nelson Ong, a brakeman on the B. and NJ,
had one leg severed from his body and one
ryp " ann1aI bv N foil nnIar tha -hacls % -.
train at Ohiowa.
Express Messenger Frank Cheneworth, who
was injured in the Dunbar wreck on the Mis-
souri, Pacific last week, died at his home in
Kansas City.
The Nebraska state board CT agriculture
cultural building In Lincoln, commencing on
the 18th inst.
Three business men Of Norfolk were ar.
rested by order OF the police judge on the
l4th inst, and fined 81 each for failure to APP
pear when summoned TO serve as jurymen.
Union Paciac surveyors are running a line
for an extension Of the road from Norfolk TO
Sioux City. The movement excites consider
able interest along the route and in Sioux
City.
Miss 3 idwin, daughter Of Rev. Mr.. Bald
win, pastor Of the First Congregational church
Of Pierce, has received a position In one OF the
land Offices in Colorado ut q salary OF 81, 20 a
year.
The Papillion Driving Park association met
January Is and elected the following officers
William Snyder, president; A. II. Nor.
ris, secretary, and William s. Upjohn, treas
urer.
The child Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Long, Of
Clearwater, Antelope county, was checked to
death by a kernel Of corn becoming lodged In
fits throat. The little darling was only fifteen
months old.
The bachelor boys Of Sidney have gone this
season like the leaves from the trees in . No
vember gale, and the harvest OF marriage fees
CLEANED by the ministers and justices has bee,
a more bountiful one.
John Mclllreevy, Of Nebraska City, was run
In by the sheriff Of Seward county on the
charge OF horse stealing. John is a veteran
crook rusher himself, having been chief OF po-
lice In Nebraska City some time ago.
The Union Pacific is to do away with th
bell cord on passenger trains. The substitute
is called a Westinghouse automatic signal,
and is now being attached TO a number OF the